that almost looks like,
a Victorian Folly,
four
sculptural, brick columns
frame this small extension to
a Georgian terrace in north London,
designed by local practice Urban Mesh for the firm's director, James Beazer,
"Bricks
are so often used as veneer, we wanted to use this small intervention to give
the common brick a chance to aspire to be something closer to its original
nature," said Beazer, "The
rare projects where we act as designer, contractor and client are great
opportunities for us to explore form and ideas and bring successful elements
and processes to other projects across the city."
the practice
tested the self-supporting twisting columns by dry-stacking bricks on
the rooftop of their studio in London, which were then translated into 3D
designs to test the junctions of the arches, three shades of brick were chosen
to mediate between the red color of the existing house and richer hues to
reference the colors’ of the garden as it matures, as Beazer himself also acted
as contractor for the project, it was possible to work closely with the
development of the brick-laying technique, which involved using a templated
disc that was rotated for each brick course, what an imaginative way to use bricks,
that somehow seem to hearken back to the days where bricks were a integral part
of a design, not just to make buildings from.
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